Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life
by Joseph Brent
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[Brent] has produced a thoughtful, sometimes moving, and entirely accessible intellectual biography which is also, under the circumstances, indispensable." --The New York Review of Books ... a fine biography."--The New York Times Book Review ... an extraordinary, inspiring portrait of the largely forgotten Peirce, a progenitor of modern thought who devised a realist metaphysics and attempted to achieve direct knowledge of God by applying the logic of science." --Publishers Weekly In this show more expanded paperback edition of the critically acclaimed biography of a true American original, the philosopher-polymath Charles Sanders Peirce, Joseph Brent refines his interpretation of Peirce's thought and character based on new research, and has added a glossary and a detailed chronology. show lessTags
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One of America's greatest philosophers, not as well known as he should be, but better known because of Brent's book.
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- Original publication date
- 1991
- People/Characters
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Important events
- Pragmatism
- Dedication
- To Thomas A. Sebeok and in memory of Duncan Brent
- First words
- Charles Sanders Peirce was born on Tuesday, September 10, 1839, into the thoroughly gentle and protestant world of well-bred Cambridge and Boston.
- Publisher's editor
- Gallman, John; Lyle, Jane
- Blurbers
- Weiss, Paul ; Hartshorne, Charles ; Houser, Nathan
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (3.95)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
